We've already chronicled the experience at the Fifth Avenue store in New York, where the participants looked at it as a bonding experience. "You don't always get to camp out in New York City," Roger Chinchilla said from his fold-out lawn chair about 10 people deep in line - probably minutes before a local homeless man tried to explain to him the many layers of irony in that statement. Of course, the unemployed were also making a quick buck off those who were unwilling to endure either the U.S. Parcel Service or the cold, hard pavement under their posterior.

In all fairness, any experience of waiting in line for a coveted tech product is an exercise in endurance as well as a bonding experience with other tech fans. There's really nothing like it. Still, we'd rather enjoy our purchase, rather than suffer for it. But thousands of Apple iPhone 5 fans around the world disagreed.

We're actually pretty sure that the scenes shown in the following pages took place where we indicated; after all, the pictures were taken before the customers had access to iO6's new Maps feature. Otherwise, I guess we'd have to refer to it as a work in progress, too.

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